PARABOLAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pəˈɹæbələ/
• (Indic) IPA: /parɑ.bɔlɑ/, /-bolɑ/

名詞

parabola (plural parabolas or parabolae or parabolæ)

1. (geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387:

     And it saves his life. As he's buzzing down a curving, narrow canal, a narrow green parabola appears hanging across the water in front of him, suddenly rising out of the water and snapping into a perfectly straight line at neck level.

2. (rhetoric) Synonym of parable.

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関連する語

参考

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• hyperbola

Further reading

• Silva Rhetoricae
• Parabola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [paˈra.bɔ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [paˈraː.bo.la]

名詞

parabola f (genitive parabolae); first declension

1. A comparison, illustration, likeness
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) An allegorical relation, parable; proverb; taunting speech or any speech.
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.6:

     animadvertet parabolam et interpretātiōnem, verba sapientum et aenigmata eōrum

     He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

3. (Medieval Latin, Late Latin) word

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, similitūdō

派生語

• parabolicē
• parabolō

派生した語

参照

• “parabola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "parabola", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)